Apparatus for duplicating



July 23, 1935. o. E. MILLER APPARATUS FOR DUPLICATING GOFFERED FILM Filed Nov. 16, 1932 Patented July 23, 1935 PATENT OFFICE APPARATUS FOR DUPLICATING GOFFEBED FILM Oran E. Miller, Rochester, N. Y., assignor to Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application November 16, 1932, Serial No. 642,909

1 Claim.

This invention relates to color photography and more particularly to an apparatus for making prints or duplicates by projection on lenticular stock from negative or positive lenticular color when a color separation picture on film having cylindrical embossed lenses is projected using a point or linear source of light the source is imaged as a narrow line behind each embossed layer. The embossing under these conditions behaves as a grating with openings equal to the width of these line images and a grating space equal to the width of an embossed lens element. In printing duplicates by projection this grating eifect gives rise to the appearance of a moir pattern between the original and the copy film and is one o! thechief difliculties encountered in printing embossed film.

In accordance with this invention an arrangement for printing embossed film is provided in which the illumination of the original film is so controlled as to prevent the formation of line images behind the original embossed film.

Further in accordance with the improved apparatus of this invention a plurality of images of the light source are formed on the picture layer of the original embossed film and these images are shifted during the printing of each frame a distance equal to the width of 1 a single embossed element on the original film.

Further in accordance with this invention a transparent embossed film orplate is positioned between the light source and the original film with its embossed lenses parallel to those of the original. The lenses formed on the transparent film or plate have a relative aperture not greater than that of the lenses on the embossed film to be printed but may differ in pitch. I

The novel features which I believe to be characteristic of my invention are set forth with particularity in the appended claim. The invention itself however both as to its organization and mode of operation will best be understood by ref erence to the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which Figure l diagrammatically shows how line images are formed by lenticulated film when a point or line source of light is used. Figure 2 is a schematic showing of the optical action of a plain embossed member interposed in the optical path in accordance with this invention. Figure 3 shows a compensating diaphragm which may be used for properly proportioning the exposures according to separate color areas. Figure 4 shows a modified arrangement in which the embossed side of (Cl. sa-w the clear embossed member faces the incident light, and Fig. 5 shows a suitable arrangement for imparting a reciprocating movement to the clear embossed member. A

In Figure 1 shown an ordinary lighting ar- 5 rangement for illuminating a developed film I! provided with cylindrical lens elements i I and an image layer 12 comprising a point or linear source of light I! and a collimating lens N for directing substantially parallel light through the film l0. l0 Each lens element Ii images the light source I! in a narrow line I! which gives rise to the grating efiect pointed out above.

One embodiment of my invention is diagrammatically shown in Fig. 2 as comprising a source of light I, a collimating lens ii for rendering the light substantially parallel, an original film i8 and a collimating lens ll behind the film l8 and the usual symmetrical objective for form-' ing an image on a sensitized layer It carried by an 20 embossed film 12, the lenticulations 23 of which are parallel to the lenticulations 24 on the original film II and face the incident light. As is well understood a collimating lens" may be positioned immediately in front of the film 22.

The arrangement just described would produce moir patterns in the printed film due to the grating efi'ect as above pointed out and in order to eliminate this effect I place a clear film or plate 20 having embossed lenses 21 thereon between the light source it and the original film iii. The minute lenses 2! have a relative aperture not greater than that oi the lenses 24 on the original film ii. The separation of the film I. and the plate II is such that parallel light is brought to focus on the image layer 20 of the film II to form a plurality of line, images of the light source it on this layer. Since these line images lie in the focal plane of the embossed lenses N the light is again rendered parallel upon emerging from 40 the original film II and according to its direction will pass through the portion of the printing objective}! corresponding to the filter area represented by the illuminated areas of the image layer ll.

with the plate or film 2t stationary only the portions of the image layer 2| which are illuminated by the line images of the source it will be printed and therefore it is necessary to move the member 2 either by oscillation or by continued movement irom a loop or roll in a direction perpendicular to the embossings I1 and at a speed suilicient to cover a distance equal to the width oi! an embossed lens duringthe exposure or a single frame. A greater speed is optional and blue which are at the edges Y the axes oi the cylindrical lenses 23 and 24 embo'ssed on the raw fllm 21 and'the original film II and areso proportioned '32 and is substantially whole oi the image layer 28.

may bs-as iast as makeit expedient or and each part of this layer is successively proi cted onto the sitimd layer II of the film 22. However due to the fact that the amount of light passed by the objective is the green, than for the outer colors, the red and the fields or the embossed lenses on the film it it is necessary to compensate for this so that the exposure wresponding to the separate colors will be in the proper proportion. This compensation may be by introducing in the filter plane of the objective a diaphragm which will pass twice as much light at its edges as at its center because at the edge of the field one half the light cone-is lost to the adjacent embossed lens and never reaches the objective while in the center of the field the entire cone of light. is used. A

suitable compensating diaphragm is shown in Figure 3 as having a masking portion 30 provided'with an hour-glass shaped cutout portion II.- The filter areas, 32, 38- and 34 are parallel to that the area of each of the 'fllterfareas 7 double that of the center filter area 33.

Another arrangement is shown in Fig. 4 in which the clear plate 3 is positioned within the embossed lenses I! facing. the" incident light. Here again the lenses 31 form line images'of the light source on the image layer 28 of the original film II and movement or the plate '36 in the dircction indicated by the double headed arrow during the printing of each-frame is necessary as above pointed out to illuminate equally the It is generally not desirable to have the rear surface of the plate 30 in contact. with the image layer 28 and to avoid this the-lens elements 31 or the plate 36 are preferably: given a longer focal length so that their focal plane is outside the plate 36. 'Ihe separation of the original film I8 and the plate I. is made such that the focal plane of the. lenses 8! coincide with the image layer 28.

'It is to be'noted that in ment just described and the both the arrangearrangement shown corresponding part 0! the senmore for the center color, usually sary movement to in Fig. 2, the lens elements of the original a distance equal to the sum oi their focal lengths and that incident parallel light will emerge parallel from the original film.

separated y The printing objective "is here shown dia- 1 single lens but it is to be practice itwill be one 0! types well known to those grammatically as a understood that in the several suitable skilled in the art.

Any means suitable for imparting the necesthe clear embossed plate or film may be provided and one convenient arrangement is shown in Fig. as comprising asupporting frame 38 for the plate 26 and having formed therewith a'slotted projection 39 in the slot 40 or which is positioned an eccentric cam 4| carried by-a shaft 42. Rotation of the shalt.

42 and its eccentric cam 4| will impart to the plate 26 a movement transverse to its cylindrical lenticulation and the eccentricity or the cam" is sufllcient to make this movement at least equal to the width of a single embossed element.

Although I have illustrated and described my invention as applied to the printing of goflered film carrying a plurality of color separation images it is obviously not restricted thereto since the apparatus is equally useful for duplicating on the copy film whatever appears in the image layer of the original film and, specifically, may

be used to duplicate gofiered filmbearing sep- .arated images corresponding to stereoscopic in detail one embodiviews.

While I have described 7 meat of my invention to comply with'the patent statutes itis to be understood that the invention is not thereby limited, for various modifications will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art withoutdeparting from my invention-.as defined in the appended claim.

What I. claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent oi the United States is:-

A projection apparatus for duplicating go!- iered film having prising a source of light, a plurality of cylindrical lenses for forming on the image side 01 the original film a plurality 01' line images oi said source, means for displacing said lenses in a direction perpendicular to their axes, an objective for procylindrical lenticuiations com-' jecting the image of theoriginal film upon the 

